Bar Matchless–on 2fer Tuesdays your cup WILL runneth over
I live right under McCarren Park, separated from cowboy Greenpoint by just a strip of hipster kickball fields and a track with purple exercise equipment. One skinny jeans stretcher jog and you’re at Bar Matchless, the last almost-Williamsburg outpost on the edge of Greenpoint, familiar, yet just a bit wilder.
Grungy beacon of inner happiness
Of course, you can go on a number of evenings and enjoy a low-key time talking to your friends, because everyone will be in private party mode. But, the night to go for the crowds just so happens to coincide with one of the most richly rewarding happy hours around: Tuesday 2-for-1 on well and taps from 8pm, when most BKers who work in the city are ready to venture out again (and everyone else is waking up from their afternoon siestas), until 2am, which, if you work, makes you feel assertively rebellious against the 5-days-of work system–and whoever you are you feel awesome because you just scored 4 stunning beers (or, ok, well drinks) for $10!
And what beers to choose from: Brooklyn lagers and pilsners and usually a seasonal; Sixpoint Sweet Action and Bluepoint Blueberry for your sweeter friends; and Goose Island IPA, for, well, me. Most brews are priced at $5 at any hour, so you can mix and match with abandon.
I was planning to write this up last week pre-Super Bowl, which would have been a helpful, albeit obvious, way to shove in gaming metaphors. But, if I say you go to Bar Matchless for the social strategy games, you’ll get the gist right? If you are at a packed-to-the-rafters bar holding basically everyone within your 10-block radius with 2-for-1 drinks until the wee hours, it’s pretty obvious why you’re there—and that would be chess. Yes, there is a chess club that meets weekly in the side room with seemingly super-human concentration levels amidst the din, as well as a foosball table, which for some is how you make friends and for others is how you alienate people.
Whether you’re into feeling united over spinning those tiny feet just right to score or the bargain price of a good beer, you’ll have reason to cram yourself in.
Location: 557 Manhattan Avenue at Driggs
Fuller pockets? Buy another drink and share your token, all friendly-like? I’ve heard tell the food is good and from the smell of them, the bleu cheese wings or mac & cheese would make a very nice counterpoint to that extra Goose Island IPA. Plus kitchen’s open until 3am to capture the appetites of all the remaining 2fer lingerers.
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